The Requited

piece is about the strive for the one girl that catches the eye among the others, the prettiest of all, the one most wanted, but is just out of reach. Throughout the series, this particular rose will be used to represent the particular girl.

this piece shows the pain of seeing the person you're with/want to be with with another, and how it metaphorically kills you, ripps your heart out, and leaves you hanging. Figred it would be interesting to play with the veins/arteries, and have them morph into a noose, 'hanging' the victim.

The two together forming the diptych, showing the highs/lows of love, and the pain of being cheated on/seeing the one you want to be with, with another.

Piece is about pretending to be happy with someone, but in actuality, you're miserable underneath. The rose on the shoulder is symbolic of the guy's ever present love for the girland here, she is beginning to see . . .

"Me/Her" - the two pieces together, again to show the masks we wear to 'protect' ourselves from love.

this piece is about the transition between the aspired, and the actual . . . feelings are reciprocated, and this is the moment before the two become one. The earing is a butterfly's pupa, just waiting to emerge.